Jacob Darwin Hamblin is Professor of History at Oregon State University. His books include Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age; Oceanographers and the Cold War; and Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (OUP, 2013), which won the Paul Birdsall Prize of the American Historical Association and the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize of the History of Science Society.

Throughout the work, Hamblin's thoughtful attention to the neocolonial workings of the "cornucopian illusion" of atomic power transforms what could have been a staid programmatic history into a much richer story at the intersection of the history of science and technology, diplomatic history, and the history of decolonization.

• "Peaceful nuclear technology...was presented to the world as atonement for the nuclear sins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Clean and cheap nuclear power would make deserts bloom and eradicate poverty. These goals were never realized, and, Hamblin argues, they were never meant to be...Hamblin...portrays countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America as abiding by US rules in hopes of receiving potentially liberating technology only tohave these hopes dashed by imperialist attitudes and interests...Hamblin's ability to endow this overlooked topic with coherence and meaning is nothing short of brilliant." -- Paul Rubinson, AmericanHistorical Review

Jacob Darwin Hamblin is Professor of History at Oregon State University. His books include Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age; Oceanographers and the Cold War; and Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (OUP, 2013), which won the Paul Birdsall Prize of the American Historical Association and the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize of the History of Science Society.

Throughout the work, Hamblin's thoughtful attention to the neocolonial workings of the "cornucopian illusion" of atomic power transforms what could have been a staid programmatic history into a much richer story at the intersection of the history of science and technology, diplomatic history, and the history of decolonization.

• "Peaceful nuclear technology...was presented to the world as atonement for the nuclear sins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Clean and cheap nuclear power would make deserts bloom and eradicate poverty. These goals were never realized, and, Hamblin argues, they were never meant to be...Hamblin...portrays countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America as abiding by US rules in hopes of receiving potentially liberating technology only tohave these hopes dashed by imperialist attitudes and interests...Hamblin's ability to endow this overlooked topic with coherence and meaning is nothing short of brilliant." -- Paul Rubinson, AmericanHistorical Review

Jacob Darwin Hamblin is Professor of History at Oregon State University. His books include Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age; Oceanographers and the Cold War; and Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (OUP, 2013), which won the Paul Birdsall Prize of the American Historical Association and the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize of the History of Science Society.

Throughout the work, Hamblin's thoughtful attention to the neocolonial workings of the "cornucopian illusion" of atomic power transforms what could have been a staid programmatic history into a much richer story at the intersection of the history of science and technology, diplomatic history, and the history of decolonization.

• "Peaceful nuclear technology...was presented to the world as atonement for the nuclear sins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Clean and cheap nuclear power would make deserts bloom and eradicate poverty. These goals were never realized, and, Hamblin argues, they were never meant to be...Hamblin...portrays countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America as abiding by US rules in hopes of receiving potentially liberating technology only tohave these hopes dashed by imperialist attitudes and interests...Hamblin's ability to endow this overlooked topic with coherence and meaning is nothing short of brilliant." -- Paul Rubinson, AmericanHistorical Review